Legends of the Northwest, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4, sentence 140
[Footnote 78: Wa'tanka--contraction of Wa-kan Tanka--Great Spirit.
What happens: contract · To what, where: Footnote, Wa
This is a sentence of «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, In the Measure of Hiawatha, part 4. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
| 2 | Footnote | footnote | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | 78 | 78 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 2 Footnote | flat |
| 4 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wa'tanka | punct |
| 5 | Wa'tanka | Wa'tanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Footnote | appos |
| 6 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 7 contraction | punct |
| 7 | contraction | contraction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Wa'tanka | appos |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Wa | case |
| 9 | Wa | Wa | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 contraction | nmod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 Tanka | punct |
| 11 | kan | kan | X | Foreign=Yes | 12 Tanka | flat:foreign |
| 12 | Tanka | Tanka | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wa'tanka | conj |
| 13 | -- | -- | PUNCT | _ | 15 Spirit | punct |
| 14 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Spirit | amod |
| 15 | Spirit | Spirit | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wa'tanka | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Footnote | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | contract | Wa | nom contraction «act transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the Northwest» by Hanford Lennox Gordon, Project Gutenberg book 8122 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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